shock jocks

A Victoria police assistant commissioner has been stood aside from his role as the head of Professional Standards over a series of "crude" online comments. Assistant Commissioner Brett Guerin has been referred to the state's Independent Broad-based anti-corruption Commission over posts that criticisedÃÂ ...

These so called on air talent believe that in the pursuit of ratings anything goes. By. Alex Barth. -. February 16, 2018. 70. 0. SHARE. facebook ÃÂ· twitter. "Pissant"…"Gutless bitch"…and a bad "Asian" accent, among other shocking, insensitive remarks by WEEI sportstalk show hosts, forced the shutdown of one of Entercom'sÃÂ ...

At the time, the shock jock faced a ratings-tampering lawsuit brought by Nielsen. No stranger to sensational headlines, Clem was also a central figure in the Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit -- bankrolled by silicon Valley TitanPeter Thiel -- that brought down Gawker Media. According to the release, GenesisÃÂ ...

Have you lately seen the prices being charged at Nevada brothels? Factor the rising price of gasoline and the tax cut is a welcome favor from our President. As the dossier maintains, he enjoys a good visit with multiple ladies of the night. Then, again, he sets his own work hours. When I make a weeknightÃÂ ...

Men have become a very, very coarsened bunch who, year after year, in both word and deed, shoot from the hip just like a shock jock but without the microphone. They have spent so much time viewing the world through little more than athletic competition, as if making money or status-building trumps theirÃÂ ...

Driving to work this morning I was amazed at the traffic prior to 5:00 A.M. Three years ago I was often alone on city streets early before sunrise. Are roads safer this January than last January? It's not all about the booming population growth in the region. It must be a sign of a slumbering economy as wellÃÂ ...

The decades-long career of radio host/media commentator Troi Torain, better known by his on-air moniker Star, has been littered with the kind of reckless talk and ensuing controversies that seemed crafted to earn him the unofficial title of shock jock. Most notable were those that got him into professionalÃÂ ...

Don Imus, the cantankerous radio host whose career was temporarily derailed when he made racist and sexist remarks, is retiring from his morning show. The Observer reported Monday that the 77-year-old's resignation was not voluntary, but rather a result of Cumulus Media not renewing his contract.

NEW YORK -- Don Imus, the cantankerous radio host whose career was temporarily derailed when he made racist and sexist remarks, is retiring from his morning show. WABC-AM says Imus' last morning drive time show on the New York-based station will be March 29. On twitter, the show announcedÃÂ ...

shock jock Howard Stern will induct Jersey rockers Bon Jovi into the Rock Hall at this year's inductions. The announcement came this morning during Bon Jovi's appearance on Stern's SiriusXM satellite radio show. On the show, frontman Jon Bon Jovi said that he and Stern recently had a secret meeting toÃÂ ...

A school in Oregon was barraged with abuse after a right-wing radio host falsely claimed that they took down the US flag to put up a rainbow flag. bankshigh school claim under fire after a caller on right-wing talk host Lars Larson's radio show claimed the US flag had been taken down. . The caller said:ÃÂ ...

"Everything is funny until it happens to you." This is how Dave Chappelle opens his special The Bird Revelation, to the raucous applause of an audience in 2002, maybe. In late 2017, the applause is scattered, and the post-production graphics move in quickly. It's not a bad joke, but it doesn't evoke theÃÂ ...

How do two 30-something, right-wing shock jocks settle a dispute? With a bake-off of course. When Mark Levy insulted Michael McLaren's baking skills, the challenge was set. The two budding bakers battled it out in the kitchen to determine whose recipe reigns supreme. The pair invited Susanne ShiptonÃÂ ...

Who knew hockey players had to know how to skate? Photo by Ramin Talaie/Getty Images. Share on twitter ÃÂ· Share on facebook. Radio wasn't my first career choice. They were always angry when I ran into the end zone where I would strike a Heisman pose. As a boy I dreamed of a football career.

Twice jailed for contempt of court, the former shock jock may be the oldest MP but he has achieved more than most. Walkley Award-winning columnist Annika Smethurst. The human headline negotiated a deal to ban child sex offenders travelling overseas. After a quarter of a century of lobbying, Hinch alsoÃÂ ...

The debate began in 2005, largely fueled by the conservative shock-jocks of talk radio, and escalated as they made enemies out of everything from Starbucks coffee cups to the Obamas' annual December card. Depending on your views, saying "Happy Holidays" is either a considerate acknowledgment ofÃÂ ...

Some American cognoscenti have since treated Wolfe as somehow suspect: a shock jock with a poet's command of the language. Read now, however, the book has more to say about 2017 than anything written of late. There are the obvious echoes--the besieged rich, racial panics--but also a theme thatÃÂ ...

The partnership brings SiriusXM's 200-odd stations to the set top box, including all of the music, sports, shock jocks and the like. The new app brings an Apple TV optimized interface for the Apple TV and the ability to customize listening experiences based on favorite artists, stations and Comedians. The appÃÂ ...

It was around 1980 when Amar Bose, the founder of Framingham-based Bose Corp., began working on a passion project that his company would eventually spend a reported $100 million to develop -- and it had nothing to do with high-end speakers or headphones. Bose was working on a new kind ofÃÂ ...

The district includes East St. Louis, Centreville, Freeburg, Belleville, and parts of Fairview Heights, Mascoutah, Granite City, O'Fallon and Shiloh, among other communities. But will race play a factor in the 2018 race? One the candidates who is running is radio shock jock Bob Romanik, who is hoping to winÃÂ ...

The New York Times has described him as a someone often found "in the center of many messy upper-class controversies," noting his past representations of Jane Welch during her divorce from Jack Welch, the chief of General Electric; investorGeorge Soros; golfer Greg Norman, and shock jock HowardÃÂ ...

A brutal war of words has broken out between the New South Wales deputy premier and the prime minister, with John Barilaro saying Malcolm Turnbull should resign, and Turnbull declaring the NSW National is attempting to ingratiate himself with Sydney shock jock Alan Jones. Barilaro used an interviewÃÂ ...

On Sunday afternoon, when Elmer T. Williams's wife told him that a mass shooting had taken place at a church in Texas, he leapt into action. First, he skimmed a handful of news stories about the massacre. Then, when he felt sufficiently informed, he went into his home video studio, put on his trademarkÃÂ ...

When Bogosian wrote Talk Radio, the media landscape was strikingly different. With the world not yet online, public opinion in America could be shaped and inflamed over the airwaves by figures similar to the show's brilliant and monstrous anti-hero, the hell-for-leather shock jock Barry Champlain. Over theÃÂ ...